PetroChina Company Limited (, ) (,, ) is a Chinese oil company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation ( CNPC ), headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing.

Although PetroChina is the most profitable company in Asia, this success may be the result of corporate management, but can also be attributed to the near duopoly on the wholesale and retail business of oil products it shares with Sinopec in China.

Another major controversial issue is PetroChina ’ s development in gas reserves in Tarim Basins, Xinjiang.

Approved in 2007, a $ 5. 5 billion petrochemical plant, expected to produce 800, 000 tons of ethylene and refine 10 million tons of crude oil a year, is now under construction by PetroChina in Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan in Southwestern China.

Sinopec Corporation is a partner in Petrodar Operating Company Ltd., a consortium whose partners also include China National Petroleum Corporation ( CNPC, the 90 per cent owner of PetroChina ) and Sudapet ( the Sudanese state-owned oil company ), among others.

Singapore Petroleum Company Limited ( SPC ， a PetroChina company ) is a Singaporean oil company.

CNPC is the parent of PetroChina, the second largest company in the world in terms of market capitalization as of June 2010.

CNPC is the government-owned parent company of public-listed PetroChina, a company created on November 5, 1999 as part of the restructuring of CNPC.

CNPC and PetroChina develop overseas assets through a joint venture, CNPC Exploration & Development Company, which is 50 % owned by PetroChina.

In the restructuring, CNPC injected into PetroChina most of the assets and liabilities of CNPC relating to its exploration and production, refining and marketing, chemicals and natural gas businesses.

Fidelity Investments, after pressure from activist groups, also announced in a filing in the US that it had sold 91 per cent of its American Depositary Receipts in PetroChina in the first quarter of 2007.

PetroChina has also come under scrutiny from international organizations for its part in trading with the Sudanese government who continues the ongoing war in Darfur.

Given its legacy asset base from Sinopec Group, analysts have categorized it as a more downstream oil player than PetroChina.

Singapore Petroleum Company or SPC was delisted from the Singapore Exchange on 22 Oct 2009 when Chinese oil giant PetroChina completed its takeover of the Singapore firm.

In the restructuring, CNPC injected into PetroChina most of the assets and liabilities of CNPC relating to its exploration and production, refining and marketing, chemicals and natural gas businesses.

CNPC spun off most of its domestic assets into a separate company, PetroChina, during a restructuring.

On November 7, 2007, Hang Seng Index Services Company announced that PetroChina would be a Hang Seng Index Constituent Stock, effective December 10, 2007.

* PetroChina and Sinopec in Chinese oil production.

# PetroChina: $ 2, 492. 04

In April 2006, PetroChina reported a successful test at the Changqing Oil Field ( Northwest China ), first discovered in 1907.

On June 10, 2010 Baker Hughes announced an agreement to work with PetroChina Tarim Oilfield Co. to supply oilfield services, including both directional and vertical drilling systems, formation evaluation services, completion systems and artificial lift technology for wells drilled into foothills formations greater than 7, 500 meters ( 24, 600 feet ) deep with pressures greater than 20, 000 psi ( 1379 bar ) and bottomhole temperatures of approximately 160 ° C ( 320 ° F ).

PetroChina will fund any joint development.

China National Petroleum Corporation and subsidiary PetroChina share one headquarters facility in the district.

The landmark of Dongzhimen -- the headquarters of PetroChina in Beijing.

PetroChina was established as a joint stock company with limited liabilities under the Company Law of the People's Republic of China ( the PRC ) on November 5, 1999, as part of the restructuring of CNPC.

Sudan divestment efforts have continued to be concentrated on PetroChina since then.

February 2011: PetroChina has agreed to pay $ 5. 4 billion for a gas field stake owned by Encana.

PetroChina, on 2008-10-24 issued a 80 billion yuan ($ 11. 7 billion ) of medium-term corporate bonds, which was the biggest ever domestic issue by a listed company.

Sinopec produces around 1 / 4 as much raw crude oil as PetroChina, but produces 60 % more refined products per annum.

What is required is the full implementation of Article 2 of the Treaty, which provides: `` The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being.

The purpose of the organization is to further the interest of women students in recreational activities as a means of promoting physical efficiency, sportsmanship, and `` play for play's sake ''.

Fear is defined as short lived, present focused, geared towards a specific threat, and facilitating escape from threat ; while anxiety is defined as long acting, future focused, broadly focused towards a diffuse threat, and promoting caution while approaching a potential threat.

Alcohol's primary effect is the increase in stimulation of the GABA < sub > A </ sub > receptor, promoting central nervous system depression.

Alcohol's primary effect is the increase in stimulation of the GABA < sub > A </ sub > receptor, promoting central nervous system depression.

The Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation based in St Albans, England, whose main aims are promoting real ale, real cider and the traditional British pub.

Martin Jay said that the first generation of critical theory is best understood as not promoting a specific philosophical agenda or a specific ideology, but as " a gadfly of other systems ".

The U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) mission is focused on improving access of underserved populations to quality health care and combating HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis ; promoting economic growth through policy reform, support for CAFTA-DR implementation, and technical assistance to small producers and tourism groups ; environmental protection and policy reform initiatives ; improved access to quality primary, public education and assistance to at-risk youth ; a model rural electrification program ; and improving participation in democratic processes, while strengthening the judiciary and combating corruption across all sectors.

Lutz is one of the main contributors to the committee as well as promoting the term " doublespeak " to a mass audience so as to inform them of the deceptive qualities that doublespeak contains.

This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

Distributism reflects this doctrine most evidently by promoting the family, rather than the individual, as the basic type of owner ; that is, distributism seeks to ensure that most families, rather than most individuals, will be owners of productive property.

More recently, Charles Wedemeyer of the University of Wisconsin – Madison is considered significant in promoting methods other than the postal service to deliver distance education in America.

Furthermore, there is also speculation that an essentialist education helps in promoting the cultural lag.

However, since the teachers associated with perennialism are in a sense the authors of the Western masterpieces themselves, these teachers may be open to student criticism through the associated Socratic method, which, if carried out as true dialogue, is a balance between students, including the teacher promoting the discussion.

In practice, this means rejecting " proprietary software ", which imposes such restrictions, and promoting free software, with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone " in cyberspace " – that is, every computer user.

Jarrett stated that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is " continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book ", adding that the images being shown were " some of the pictures just coming in to us ....

The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs ( medications ), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices ( ERED ), and veterinary products.

The Foresight Institute is a Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit organization for promoting transformative technologies.

Potassium nitrate is the most important ingredient in terms of both bulk and function because the combustion process releases oxygen from the potassium nitrate, promoting the rapid burning of the other ingredients.

In the end an out-of-court settlement granted only £ 8600 for promoting the new alphabet, which is now called the Shavian alphabet.

The preamble of the charter provides that the members " reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the equal rights of men and women " and Article 1 ( 3 ) of the United Nations charter states that one of the purposes of the UN is: " to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion ".

In Thailand hate speech ( การส ื่ อสารซ ึ่ งม ี เจตนาทางเกล ี ยดช ั ง or การพ ู ดซ ึ่ งม ี เจตนาทางเกล ี ยดช ั งให ้ เก ิ ดการเกล ี ยดช ั งอ ี กฝ ่ ายหน ึ่ ง ), transliterated as เฮทสป ี ช, is prohibited in civil and criminal statutes, but state machinery and society as a whole generally do little to prevent it or prosecute parties promoting or engaging in hate speech.

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